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Construction set to begin Monday on data center

The Potawatomi Business Development Corp. said it will begin construction Monday on its $36 million data center in Milwaukee's Concordia neighborhood.

Called Data Holdings LLC, the two-story, 45,000 square-foot data center will be on an 11-acre site at the intersection of N. 33rd and W. State streets.

"Currently, there is not a data center in southeastern Wisconsin that has the level and scale of technology that Data Holdings offers," Dan McGrath, a data industry executive, said in a statement. McGrath is founder of Technology Management Inc. and co-founder and chief executive of NewAge Data Solutions.

The new data center will be designed for midsize to large businesses that need at least 1,000 square feet of information storage space. It will have the power, cooling and communications capabilities required for high-performance, research computing systems, said Jay Bayne, executive director of the Milwaukee Institute, a nonprofit group that provides cloud-based technical computing services. The Milwaukee Institute will locate some of its resources at the new center.

The Potawatomi Business Development Corp. is owned and operated by the Forest County Potawatomi Community of Wisconsin.